Iran’s top military commander has warned that any renewed attack on the country will be met with a “more forceful response”, Press TV reported. Major-General Ali Abdollahi, chief of the general staff of Iran’s armed forces and commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, made the warning on Tuesday during a visit to military production facilities, where he highlighted the expansion of the Army’s drone manufacturing capabilities. Al Jazeera’s live coverage also carried the remarks.

“What I saw today at one of the many drone production facilities developed through the efforts of my colleagues in the Islamic Republic of Iran Army reflects the readiness, motivation and innovative capabilities” of Iran’s forces, Abdollahi said, according to Press TV. He said equipment developed and upgraded by Iranian specialists had become more advanced than earlier models and offered new capabilities, and that lessons from the recent wars with the US and Israel had left Iran “better equipped” to respond to future attacks, with Tehran’s determination to resist “not weakened”.

Abdollahi pointed to asymmetric warfare as central to Iran’s approach, arguing that a technologically advanced adversary can be countered with a range of less expensive but effective systems. “Our enemies possess modern and advanced equipment, and when necessary, we must respond using different methods and asymmetric capabilities,” he said, in remarks Press TV attributed to him — Tehran’s stated doctrine, not an independently assessed capability.

Press TV, Iran’s state broadcaster, describes the June 2025 12-day war and the 40-day war that began on February 28, 2026 as wars “imposed” by the United States and Israel, and says both ended after Iran’s retaliatory operations forced a ceasefire — that is Tehran’s framing of those conflicts. Abdollahi has previously warned Washington and Israel against what he called “further miscalculation”, in a statement on Sunday.

The warning came on the same day US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in Mumbai that a peace deal with Tehran is “extremely difficult” and accused Iran of targeting commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz — the latest exchange of hard lines between the two sides while attacks on shipping continue.